Is it open? Closed?
Every time I go by it looks abandoned.
Where are the hours posted? I’m not talking about online, but on site?
What’s the function of only running test sites during weekdays, only during first shift hours? Why are we not testing on the weekend? Or does Covid disappear for two days at a time?
Is it ethical to have private business using a public park? This is at least more beneficial than that light show in Goodwin Park, but it raises questions.
If corporations can solve everything, why does disaster management looks like this? Why would we trust a bored CEO with solving larger problems, like figuring out how we will live after we have thoroughly destroyed our own habitat, in no small part to decisions like running drive-thru Covid clinics and food pantries?
And the expectation that the government rescue us? What’s the track record for that? Hartford is doing it’s own at-home test distribution. Fantastic. To get those on Thursday, you needed to work second or third shift, take the day off, or have someone in the household that runs errands for you. Oh, you have no spouse to whom you can outsource your errands? Too bad. Keep paying that Single Tax.
We should be mandating masks.
We should be mandating vaccines.
But we get sold out basketball games at the Civic Center, a shrug, a handful of home tests that won’t guarantee someone testing positive will quarantine, some thoughts and prayers.
Richard
My goodness I wondered what that decorative shack was for. I said, Kerri must be losing her mind as I thought they were outhouses. And I heard through the grapevine that some large corporations in Hartford are hording tests for their mostly white middle class fools who refuse to get vaccinated. In the town I live in we get 5,000 test kits. The population is 50,272. I am no fool to go and stand in a line to get a free test. Talk about danger. I remember what Gloria Martin said, When the people have had enough revolution will happen suddenly.
Linda Pagani
I agree with you one hundred percent: masks and Covid vaccines should be mandatory. And don’t let people “test out” of vaccine mandates. It’s absurd to simply hope everyone will do those two simple things on their own, because for two years many, many haven’t. That’s why we’re still in this crisis.
Kerri Provost
I am exhausted by the excuses being made for why people refuse to do those things. The vaccine is free. FREE. I know the “correct” thing to say is that people should get time from work to recover from possible side effects, and it’s not that I disagree, but these are the same people who show up to work ACTUALLY sick because work won’t give them the time. The logic just doesn’t work here. Masks are inexpensive and there have been many freebies. So much has been written about how there is a gold standard mask, but that even the ones of lower quality help to reduce the spread.
Yesterday, with a positivity rate of 20%, I saw a handful of people wandering the grocery store unmasked. What planet are they on?
Linda Pagani
The planet of I’m the only person in the world who matters.